How to extract the values of a .wav file

Question

i'm trying very hard to find a simple answer to an otherwise (i believe at least) very easy question. So i have let's say a .wav file of 16 bit, 44100 hz, stereo and i want to extract some of the 16 bits values from the file and see their actual values in a format that makes sense.I don't know if are signed or unsigned or float or anything else but at the end i want to have printed the value that means something.I have read that the first 44 bytes are irrelevant things so i want to have access to the values after these till the end. Secondly i want simply modify a value and save it to another .wav file.These things is best to do in c or python because are the only languages that i know. Thank you!

Answer 1

I found a page asking almost the same question here with almost all the code written here:

Extract amplitude array from a wav File using JAVA

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